Bob Schuman
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Can you run back through meter base from transfer switch to refeed existing panels
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kwired
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How you do it would be critical. You can not run service and load side service disconnecting means conductors through the same raceway, wireway or cable - they can be in the same enclosure though. AFAIK you won't find a listed transfer switch that either isn't the service disconnecting means or requires a service disconnect ahead of it.
Then comes whether the serving utility would allow it.
Then comes whether the serving utility would allow it.
Bob Schuman
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So it would require two conduits, one feeding the transfer switch and one returning load feeds to existing panels. If utility co will allow
GerryB
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Usually we just take the load side from the meter, conduit or cable , and feed the ATS, then from the ATS to the panel. So you are saying you want to nipple over the the TS from the meter and then back through to your panel. I did something similar once and it was 200 amp and wasn't easy going in and back through the 2 " conduit nipple I had put in. It was 3/0 copper so I thought it would be okay but I wouldn't do it again.
kwired
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You can't return back through same nipple, unless the return is still service conductors - which if you have a listed transfer switch and follow listing - return conductors won't be service conductors.
Bob Schuman
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Yes, the original install of the 320 meter has two-2" nipples out the back into each 200 amp panel. I can't get to the panels to re feed without changing location of meter and exposing the two entry points that's why going back through meter would make most sense if legal.
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